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Dibdin, Michael
Michael Dibdin was a British crime writer born in Wolverhampton. His father was a teacher. The family moved to Northern Ireland in 1954 where Dibdin went to school until 1965. He graduated with a degree in English from the University of Sussex, Brighton, in 1968. He then attended teachers college at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, graduating in 1969. He worked in various professions...
Literary figures
Den gamle i hörnet
Gender: Male
What his real name is, we don’t know – the name Bill Own is mentioned on one occasion, but everything points to that not being correct. Baroness Emmuska Orczy wrote three collections of short stories, in which the old, rather grumpy and inaccessible man sits at a corner table in a café, ties complicated knots in a piece of string and solves the even more complicated criminal cases that jour...